Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

It's talking about tshuva.

So the gemara says, And the gemara says, I thought tshuva was so great that your averos turned into mitzvos.

So the gemara says, That if a person does tshuva meyira, the averos that they did bemezer become

like Shkogos, and if you do tshuva me'ahava, the Haveros that you did b'mezid, become like Zuchuyos.

So it's not about Yom Kippur, it's about tshuva me'ahava.

But the question still stands, I mean, is that not fair?

A person is going to spend his whole life doing nothing but mitzvos, and then someone else does Haveros his whole life, does tshuva me'ahava, and right away, all of his Haveros turn into mitzvos, and he's got more mitzvos than the guy who's been doing mitzvos his whole life.

So the Marsha is bothered by this question, and the Marsha says that when you do Chuvah Me'ava, you must have done full Chuvah.

He says that it doesn't mean that the Averos that you have done becomes a Chuvah Me'ava.

Those are still averos.

But you're going to be so motivated to do mitzvos, to make up for all of your failings in the past, that you're going to do way more mitzvos than anybody else, and way more mitzvos that are going to outweigh whatever averos you've done in the past.

It doesn't sound that way from the Gemara.

The Gemara says, So it doesn't exactly sound that way.

Others suggest that the averos themselves, since they drive a person,

to want to be better, and to want to do more mitzvot, since that serves as the drive for the person to be better, to do more mitzvot, so those averos become zechuyos.

In Chassidus, there's a totally different approach.

If you ever learn Tanya, he discusses this, and he basically says that the midah of a person's law of Rav Korosh Baruch Hu

after he sins, is different than the meat of a person's love for HaKadosh Baruch Hu when he's at Tzadik Gamor.

Because if his nefesh was completely sunken into the Sitra Achra, so then, He has a greater thirst.

His nefesh, his neshama, has a greater thirst.